RICHI BHATIA

I draw on the body - residue, knowledge (physiological, aural and behavioral); I am interested in exploring how sensory agencies create vital entanglements as senses are not singular locomotive agencies; bodies are not singular beings.

Richi Bhatia is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice floats between drawing, performance, object making, assemblage, and food intervention. Rooted in experimentation with the body as a medium, her work delves into labor-intensive processes, walking, research, and hand-making. She engages the body as a pressure indicator—an ever-sensing tool responding to memory, food, technology, and environment—to explore the social fabric we inhabit.

A central thread in her work is the slow act of transformation, first catalyzed by her own experience with a skin anomaly and the journey from illness to a prescribed state of ‘normalcy.’ Marketplaces—particularly meat and fish markets—have become key sites of exploration, serving as stages where the private and public meet, and where human-animal interactions unfold in sanitized and performative settings.

Her performances confront the convergence of mind, body, and spectator, turning viewers into co-authors of the work. These investigations are often translated into large scrolls that integrate text, food interventions, and assemblages.

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